I think that last cake is supposed to be celebrating a specific game between two teams. Hence the large globs of icing in two sets of colors on either side of the cookie cake. The grocery store I used to work for in my hometown made baked goods like that all the time for the Browns vs. Steelers parties because there were lots of fans of both teams in the area.

All that is not to say that decorating a sports cake with a giant question mark is not hilariously weird.

Oh my gosh! I might be the first post today (or one of them anyway). As a professional proofreader, these cakes make me kRazee.But the last one is often my own reaction to some of the pieces I read at work..."HUH? Someone got PAID to write this?"

(Jen, don't forget your PIN number at the ATM machine!)

P.S. I live in "Texes" and really want to send in a wreck...but here's irony: I, the proofer, was deeply distressed when I discovered that my local grocery store cake decorators can spell and write well...bummer! But I shall search elsewhere....

This reminds me of a commercial for Snickers bars (I think) where a man was painting the team logo in the endzone while, presumably, distracted by hunger. One of the football players walks by and says something to the effect of, "Looks good, but who are the Chefs?" (For you non-football fans, it should have been Chiefs.)

Today's blog and comments (so far) are so hilarious I could not contain my laughter. (More like muffled snorts because I'm supposed to be listening to the teacher... it's a computer-based class so we all have our computers on.) Well, I am now in trouble. Oh well, it was SO worth it!

Haha, NYJ's Jets...I'm a member of the TAT at work. What does TAT stand for you ask? Why, we're the Team Activities Team! -That's fancy talk for "party planning committee." People call us the TAT Team -Team Activities Team Team. I work at a science center. Sigh.

Not a football person (haha, I almost typed "foodball"...how's that for a wreck?), but I went to college in Delaware and met enough people from NJ to learn that everyone from North Jersey seems to think they're from NY anyway. So maybe it's not all that inaccurate. ;)

Really , REALLY sad is that Eagles fans are known for chanting "E-A-G-L-E-S". I cannot believe that anyone in the area could possibly misspell that word. I don't even like football and that chant has been ingrained in my head since childhood...

For the Texas one--are you sure they were trying to say Texas? They might have been trying to remind people that, despite all the football hype, they should still be trying to get their taxes done. Perhaps they were trying to combine "Texas" and "Taxes" into...well...um.

As a huge football fan (NY or NJ Giants - whichever you prefer), I love these.

One point though..the eagle with the NY Giants helmet in it's mouth...it might be that they were trying to say the Eagles were going to eat the Giants? Since we are huge rivals and play each other at least twice a year.

"Beauty and the Beast, wonderful movie, doesn't get enough credit. Belle is the forgotten princess most of the time."***********************************Belle MUST be the forgotten princess, because although living in France, "Zut alors!" made the cut over at The Little Mermaid. Go figure!

And B and the B did get a LOT of credit: first animated feature to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar (and still the only one until Up was announced this week), plus three nominated songs, a nomination for sound, and a Broadway musical that ran for well over a decade!

Random Edna quote, misspelled football cakes, icing globs, can today's Cakewrecks be any better? BTW, I especially like the unfinished Eagles cake. Did the decorator just get distracted, forget to to take her meds, nod off......Go Saints!

#2--How do we know we're not cheering on Vicki? Maybe she's the first girl on a football team somewhere....Especially with lavender icing.

#3: LOVE the effect of the egg-shaped pan. so non-football like. And with the dirtbrown and the careful "stitching"--it looks like an archaeological dig with an exhumed skeleton of...something. Hammerhead shark, perhaps?

4: Poor Chorger. And someone put silly string on his cake.

6: Why are there 90 Patroits? Doesn't that seem a little excessive?

7: the Texes football is looking a little droopy. deflated. something. but not like a decent football. The egg pan would probably have been a better choice than a half round on its side.

9: is the kind of cake that is so all purpose! Who will win the superbowl? who will win the world series? will the baby be born a boy or a girl? will so and so survive surgery? etc. It also seems so philosophical, in an existentialist sort of way. "If I don't have an inscription, am I really here?" "If I am a giant cookie, should I still be in the cake case?" "?"

wv: inscr--the kind of inscription that leaves you hanging, like #9, or better, like #5 where they just stopped writing. presumbably to go to lunch or the bathroom in a HURRY. at least it's not poo brown. what a fun way to decorate a cake. "Happy Birt--" "Good luck, Ja--" Maybe it could be combined with the question mark. "So long ?" "Happy Anniversary Mark and ?" someone just doesn't finish their thoug--THAT's "inscr"

Stephanie, you may be on to something. It's a very neutral cake to celebrate whomever wins so you can buy it before the party. But the team colors are there to "celebrate" the fact they're both playing. Good way for the cake not to go to waste, either. Who wants to buy a cake for the losing team?

At my college, the swipe cards were called "JAC" - an acronym within an acronym already, it stood for "JMU Access Card", but of course everyone says "JAC Card", so you've got the redundancy going on, too! haha

The worst part of the "Eagls" cake? If you live anywhere near the city of Philadelphia, you know the Eagles fight song by heart. And the final line of it (meant to be sung in a loud and obnoxious manner) is "E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!!" clearly, this wreckerator is not from around here.

(Zut alors, I have missed one!)Sacre bleuWhat is this?How on earth could I missSuch a sweet little succulent crab?Quel dommageWhat a lossHere we go in the sauceNow some flour, I thinkJust a dabNow I stuff you with breadIt don't hurt 'cause you're deadAnd you're certainly lucky you are'Cause it's gonna be hotIn that big silver potToodle-loo, mon poissonAu revoir!

Horrible (and hilarious) as these cakes are, I can honestly say I would gladly eat a piece from any of them (perhaps while everyone else was in the other room watching the "game"). Yesterday's cakes . . . not so much. (Retch)

That reminds me - I used to work at an art supply store directly across from the Kimmel Center (a big music hall in Philadelphia). I happened to glance out of the window of my store the day after they finished building the Center, only to see a homeless fellow spray painting "FLY EAGLES, FLY" on the side of the building. Only..he got to "FLY EAG" and then he just sort of...stopped. And looked at it for a full minute. As he started to paint an "E", a police officer nabbed him. So, for a week, the side of the Kimmel Center said "FLY EAGE", which is just so...charming.

There was a good ad in Australia for our football. A man is doing painting on the field for the 'Crows'. He finishes and looks at his work. A footballer comes up and says 'That's great mate, but who are the cows?' This was a beer ad, by the by. And it was a football field being painted, not a cake. At least with the cake you can remove the evidence... unless photographed.

Do people actually charge...no wait, better question. Do people actually PAY for these? I mean if it comes down to this, I will buy a plain frosted sheet cake and a squirt can of frosting and do it myself. I mean there is mistakes and then there are FAILS. These are definitely the latter.

LeftWongLock: We sorta got Cards love (wrecks?) with that last pic. It's pretty obvious that cookie was for last year's Super Bowl.

Tho Argh!! This makes me wish I had my camera on my last year! The Wal-Mart down the street from me had a ton of Super Bowl cakes with the team colors reversed. All their Steelers cakes were Red and White, and the Cards were Black and Yellow.

Which is very, very sad considering that this bakery is in Mesa, Az...or maybe not, because this bakery is in Mesa, Arizona's answer to Fresno.

Yay!! A banking reference amidst all the wreckery. Following closely behind ATM machine is PIN number....or DDA account...and on a completely different note, making a Super Bowl cake for the Eagles is just an unfortunate waste of cake and frosting............not to mention time...

The NYJ's is actually the person simply trying to make the acronym plural. NYJ= New York Jets. While you could argue that this was not the preferred method, it isn't so completely boneheaded as the post makes it seem.

ATM Machines -- yay! Thanks for pointing that out! I work at a bank and it drives me CRAZY! Also, don't say "VIN number" "SSN number" or "PIN number"--the N stands for "number", people! You don't have to say it again!

. . . I should probably be living in a room with white padded walls, huh?

Strange as it may seem the Vicking one makes sense if you pronounce Viking as I heard it pronounced when in Scandinavia, and indeed it can be a verb which I believe it was long before it became a noun.

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